This year’s local government pay settlement has been agreed after two of the three unions gave their backing to employers’ offer. The deal, endorsed by UNISON and GMB, but not Unite, means staff will receive an increase of 3.2% for 2025-26, backdated to April 2025. Given the makeup of negotiating body the National Joint Council for Local Government Services (NJC), it is sufficient for UNISON and one of the other two unions to agree a deal for it to go through. The outcome comes despite members of all three unions rejecting the offer from the employers’ side of the NJC in consultative ballots concluded recently.
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